Gentrification and Grassroots Resistance in San Francisco's Tenderloin Export

@article{citeulike:2573422, abstract = {Since World War II, San Francisco has been transformed by the high-rise postindustrial restructuring of central cities and by corresponding gentrification pressures. In one low-income inner-city district, the Tenderloin, residents organized and fought successful battles against the gentrifying growth regime through the 1980s. Moving beyond being a reactionary antigrowth movement, Tenderloin activists have advanced a proactive, neighborhood-sensitive regime, with a social-production capacity of its own, represented by the neighborhood's nonprofit housing movement. Their example teaches about the neighborhood-responsive progressive forces that characterize San Francisco and about the potential of grassroots mobilization as a response to international economic restructuring. 10.1177/107808749503000401}, author = {Robinson, Tony}, citeulike-article-id = {2573422}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107808749503000401}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://uar.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/30/4/483}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/107808749503000401}, journal = {Urban Affairs Review}, keywords = {gentrification, neighborhood, planning}, month = {March}, number = {4}, pages = {483--513}, posted-at = {2009-01-05 16:53:59}, priority = {2}, title = {Gentrification and Grassroots Resistance in San Francisco's Tenderloin}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107808749503000401}, volume = {30}, year = {1995} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2573422 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2573422 N2 - Since World War II, San Francisco has been transformed by the high-rise postindustrial restructuring of central cities and by corresponding gentrification pressures. In one low-income inner-city district, the Tenderloin, residents organized and fought successful battles against the gentrifying growth regime through the 1980s. Moving beyond being a reactionary antigrowth movement, Tenderloin activists have advanced a proactive, neighborhood-sensitive regime, with a social-production capacity of its own, represented by the neighborhood's nonprofit housing movement. Their example teaches about the neighborhood-responsive progressive forces that characterize San Francisco and about the potential of grassroots mobilization as a response to international economic restructuring. 10.1177/107808749503000401 IS - 4 JF - Urban Affairs Review EP - 513 TI - Gentrification and Grassroots Resistance in San Francisco's Tenderloin VL - 30 SP - 483 KW - gentrification KW - neighborhood KW - planning AU - Robinson, Tony PY - 1995/03/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107808749503000401 ER -